Storage Networking

Hi Guys,I have to small fabrics (A and B), each one composed of two 9148, and each pair of 9148 is connected over the WAN over a trunk, for several times during the day both this links (one for fabric A and the other for fabric B) are having near 100...

Hello Everyone,I am new to Cisco SAN and just would like to know the differences between cisco DCNM and Cisco Fabric manager and which one is latest as of now.regardsVINAY

How to get the summary statistics logs of port channel through CLI, basically we will login to management server and use device manager to get the logs by enabling the channel on summary tab, and leave our session ideal.. if my session log off am not...

                   I'm not allowed to use administrator permissions. What kind of user (and permissions) do I need on the VCenter for discovering the VM's for the DCNM (version 5.2(2C))

        We have a Dell EQ 6510x we have in production and we are about to power on a Cisco UCS B series chassis and a pair of 6248UP FIs. I'm planning to connect the 4 6510x 10G ports directly to the 6248 FIs and set them as Applicance Ports. My ques...

Hi all,I'm sure I am missing something fairly obvious and stupid but I need several sets of eyes and help.Here is the scenario:I want to be able to create san port-channels between the FI and Nexus.  I don't need to trunk yet as I can't even get the ...

The "show license usage" Show Command, shows you whether the FC/storage licensing is enabled, but it does not indicate how many ports are supported.  Is there a way to show this? N5K-2# show license usageFeature                     Ins Lic   Status E...

What are commands to list active logins, based on WWN's, in this way, I can find if these WWN are zoned.Thanks you!

We are deploying Solarwinds and would like some tips on what would be useful to monitor on MDS switches.  Of course, the normal port utilization, cpu, interface counters are already set up, but thought I would check to see if anyone has any suggestio...

In our environment, we have been using fcalias'es as the zone members. But I am trying to move to using device aliases. I have defined the device aliases already, but to change an active zone by replacing the fcalias members with the device alias mem...

Please share with me?I'm trying to generate the trap but couldnti even setup to enable to get the notification of trap cIfXcvrMonStatusChangeNotif in my Nx9k switch to get the trap but failed to get the trap.Please help to share the SNMP trap cIfXcvr...

We have a pair of Nexus 5548's.  My questions is regarding the hardware configuration of the interfaces.  The 5548 has 32 x 1/10Gb interfaces, are these interfaces hardware or ASIC independent, or are they grouped / oversubscribed in any way?What I a...

Hi,There is a need to reconfigure existing IBM server, and attach it to nexus 5596UP switches with FCoE.For that, we have purchased emulex vfaII adapter with fcoe license, and  2 twinax 5 m cables.I am about to consider configuration details.First, i...